Reading

How are you promoting reading in your school using 21st Century methods?
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Competency	Examples	Ideas/ Barriers	Other Comments
You consider new ways to promote reading.You are piloting/supplying learners with downloadable audio books such as Playaways, Kindles, iPads, Nooks.	Discovery College - we use Playaways and video as other ways to tell a story. Looking into ebooks, downloadable audio - not there yet.
You share ebook apps with students for their iPhones, droids,and iPads and other mobile devices. (Check out Gale’s AccessMyLibrary, School Edition)
You market, and your students share, books using socialnetworking tools like Shelfari, Good Reads, or LibraryThing.	Discovery College :We use Goodreads as a tool for secondary students to record their reading and to see what others are reading.
Your students blog or tweet or network in some way about what they are reading
Your desktop screensavers promote great reads,not Dell or Apple or HP.
You link to available free ebook collections using such tools asGoogle Books, International Children’s Digital Library (See ebook pathfinder.)	Discovery College - these are linked from our netvibes page.
You review and promote books in your own blogs and wikis and other websites.
You embed ebooks on your websites to encourage reading and support learning
You work together with learners to create and share digital booktalks or book trailers.